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Occasional announcements sent by Streaming Media, or on behalf of our advertising partners, on what we feel are important offers, developments, publications, and events in the streaming/online video industry.

This year's National Association of Broadcasters show should be an especially important one for streaming. Here's what to look for, particularly in the categories of transcoding, HD, metadata, and mobile video.

With content publishers needing to target more and more devices with the same pieces of video, the need is increasing for a solution that efficiently delivers multiple resolutions and bitrates. The Scalable Video Codec extension to H.264 is looking like the best bet.Tues., April 7, by Jan Ozer

Released today, Intel's new Nehalem chip should benefits workstation users of every type of transcoding tool and video editing platform, and is already in use at DreamWorks Animation.Mon., Mar. 30, by Tim Siglin

Hulu's recent removal of its content from Boxee is a reminder that broadcast and cable networks are still afraid of losing control of their content. But change is coming, and old media needs to embrace the new.

From Rob Glaser’s unveiling of RealVideo 9 to an in-depth look into enterprise applications at Oracle, Streaming Media West featured an assortment of companies and speakers touting the development and benefits of streaming media.

After the U.S. Copyright Office released proposed webcasting rates last week, the industry reacted strongly, with some claiming that the rates will put them out of business, or force them to change their business plans. Here’s how some streaming companies reacted to the news, in their own words.

Although the newly announced CARP royalty rates garnered the most headlines this week, other big stories involved wireless streaming, online movies and some new (and big) entrants into the streaming field. Senior Editor José Alvear looks at this week’s noteworthy news.

This week Apple demonstrated--but didn’t release--QuickTime 6. In other news, there were updated products from Virage and Telestream, plus Arbitron is offering a preview of its new Internet radio study. Senior Editor José Alvear takes a look at this week’s notable news.

During Tuesday’s QuickTime Live conference, Apple unveiled QuickTime 6 with MPEG-4 support. But Apple held back its official release because of stringent “per hour” fees associated with the MPEG-4 license pool. Senior Editor José Alvear takes a look at the not-yet released QuickTime 6.

This week we find Internet radio grew tremendously in 2001, while Sigma Designs releases an MPEG-4 decoder card. Plus this week's big story: Apple claims that its QuickTime player got more new users in 2001 than RealNetworks’ media players. Senior Editor José Alvear delves deep into the news.